15 August 2019Mirror gaze experiment 3 This participant made no written notes, as they did not have any hallucinatory visions. However, the participant mentions a small light in the mirror and how this cycled through all colours of the rainbow. However – although this light [an LED on the camera] did indeed exist, the LED did…
Workshop
Proximity day 2 experiment 4
15 August 2019 Mirror gaze experiment 4 / Transcript of handwritten notes: 00.02.20 “Flickers of light behind” 00.03.30 “Blue light moves further away” 00.03.40 “Light moves further away and fades” 00.04.50 “Comes closer” 0005.40 “Reflection is faint” 00.06.10 “Blurred around the edges” 00.06.400 “The left side is slightly brighter” 00.07.30 “Blue light in line with nose”…
Proximity day 1 experiment 2
14 August 2019 Mirror gaze experiment 1 /Transcript of handwritten notes: 00.04.30 “I see my outline when I couldn’t before” 00.04.40 “felt like sitting opposite a person not a reflection” 00.06.20 “parts of the face coming clearer” 00.06.30 “flash of hands reaching up” 00.07.30 “features swirling” 00.07.45 “mouth open” 00.07.50 “foggy confused face “ 00.08.45 “feeling…
Proximity day 1 experiment 1
Mirror gaze experiment
The mirror gaze experiment requires the participant to sit in a near dark room and to stare at their own reflection for a set amount of time while listing to white noise. After only a short amount of time most people experience powerful illusions of facial distortion, grossly exaggerated features, faces of animals, the face…
Alien Hand Experiment
I set up a version of the Alien Hand experiment at the Manchester Art Gallery Workshops, something I had never tried before on other people. Each day I watched people use this and took note of what they did and how they interacted with it. A participant places their hands under a screen. Another participant…
Ganzfeld and Mirror Gaze
1-1 experiment sessions in the studio I invited participants to come to my studio to take part in phase 2 of my research. This opens up to using the Ganzfeld and the Strange Face in the Mirror Illusion. Both use white noise connected to a system of biofeedback, using Galvanic skin response signals to subtly…
Clay Hand Experiments
Workshops at Manchester City Art Gallery The aim was to deliver an engaging fun activity for all the family which related to the theme of the body and ideas around perception illusion referencing the Leonardo show as well as the Bridget Riley drawings in the Gallery. The workshop was open as a drop-in open to…
[Re]Mapping perception
Documentation from the [Re]Mapping perception workshop at LJMU 2 May 2019 Here is the original invitation… A workshop for artists/researchers engaging in a wide range of practice-based and artistic research methodologies. It aims to explore interdisciplinary methods through a series of provocations in embodied multisensory experience, designed to enhance our perception and self-awareness. The workshop…
Synanet workshop: Disrupt Encode Consolidate
Notes for the collaborative Art & Bio-science Workshop at Lancaster University, UK on Monday 17th to Wednesday 19th December 2018 I had a very interesting 3 days at Lancaster University participating in the Synanet workshop. The idea was to bring together interdisciplinary practice across the sciences and arts, to explore ideas in neuroscience research and BioArt. The workshop…
Fieldwork under the ‘Darkest sky’
Electronic taste perception experiments
[Here is some documentation from one of the activities for the ‘re-mapping the senses workshop earlier this year…] Our sense of taste is directly affected by the colour and smell of the food. Experiments prove that the colour of a drink affects our perception of its sweetness for example. Altering the sound of the food, say…
Clay hand experiments at Radiona
Some documentation from the workshop at Radiona in Zagreb [See Re-mapping the senses workshop] [For more information about the clay hand experiment see here] [For more information about the clay hand experiment see here]
Fish-brain-machine / Radiona workshop
After constructing the Fish-brain-machine PCB circuits we spent some time experimenting and describing the hallucinogenic visuals created by the stroboscopic light. The ping pong balls over the eyes diffuse the LED light, making for a more intense effect – and enabling use with eyes open. Here they describe some of the effects including seeing colours and ‘a strange experience’ of seeing…
Radiona workshop, Zagreb
I’m doing a workshop related to my research, perceptual illusions and altering perception through experiments, Clay hand illusion and other activities based on sound and light and taste, at Radiona Zagreb, 21-22/04/2018 https://radiona.org/ check out the web Re-mapping the senses workshop page and resources here…